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Easy to create and test different configurations
What do you like best about the product?
The website makes it easy to create and test different configurations. I also had an occation to use support and they where very responsive and helped me resolve my questions quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
For lower, not production envirments I would like to be able to create smaller configurations to cost optimize. Especially in development where one engineer maybe using the brokers for small tests.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Creating multiple non-production environments to support our SDLC.
Complex task were very simple to implement , great UI and monitoring tools
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of access for junior developers also very easy to integrate with projects
What do you dislike about the product?
Didn't encounter anything to dislike about
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Aiven provided with instances of Redis and kafka which I need to use in my project and using it was very easy compared to other services
Does its job perfectly.
What do you like best about the product?
What distinguishes aiven from other database providers is it's super quick to get a cluster up and running, followed by a generous 300$ coupon so you can tinker around and utilise the platform wholeheartedly. It also gives an option to run upto 25 clusters, so even in a free plan you could power your 25 side projects for free, which the other providers restrict to just one. I sincerely love their service and would continue to be a user for them.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think perhaps they could optimize their cluster closing time. Tho fast, I wish it'd be quicker.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I could create multiple database clusters up and running and power my side projects hassle free.
Best Free Tier and low-cost benefits
What do you like best about the product?
After so much research I found Aiven and the best services always in the Free Tier to continue learning IT skills with easy use and implementation and integration, Large storage capacity for those who will have a high frequency of use, in addition to having easy access to user support .
What do you dislike about the product?
I think at least SQL selects on Database Free Services
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Aiver solve a need to a large capacity Database to my learning projects and now i dont need a lot of services in so many plataforms
Good choice for cloud based database hosting
What do you like best about the product?
I like having choice of Cloud providers.
You can choose based on your preference or based on cost.
Many services have free trial and some services like Caching and MySQL has Free tier, which is perfect to get started or even for staying with free tier for long term for small project.
Setting up new product is super easy and almost instant, all done from the browser.
You also get generated code in your preferred language to get started and connect to your new service.
Even when service is not free you can still fine a very reasonably priced offering from one of the 5 cloud providers.
I also like the option to easily migrate data from existing on-premises database to the new hosted DB instances.
You have access to logs and statistics like CPU and memory utilization so you can monitor your database performance.
If you looking for a hosted Kafka solution Aiven has good options that priced very reasonably.
You can choose based on your preference or based on cost.
Many services have free trial and some services like Caching and MySQL has Free tier, which is perfect to get started or even for staying with free tier for long term for small project.
Setting up new product is super easy and almost instant, all done from the browser.
You also get generated code in your preferred language to get started and connect to your new service.
Even when service is not free you can still fine a very reasonably priced offering from one of the 5 cloud providers.
I also like the option to easily migrate data from existing on-premises database to the new hosted DB instances.
You have access to logs and statistics like CPU and memory utilization so you can monitor your database performance.
If you looking for a hosted Kafka solution Aiven has good options that priced very reasonably.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not all products have sample code for Node.js
Not all products have free tier or free trial.
Not all products have free tier or free trial.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Needed an easy to setup cloud based caching and mySQL database
Put your mind at ease with managing databases!
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to spin up database instances. Their backup feature puts minds at ease!
What do you dislike about the product?
The basic logs feature lacks filtering option.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Maintaining the DBs on premise
Ease of Use coupled with power
What do you like best about the product?
Highly available Kafka features along with a significant level of redundancy. Seemless integration with a lot of popular tools like Prometheus. Its also abstracts the underlaying infrastructure management.
What do you dislike about the product?
Can't comment on drawbacks at present. Need to spend more time with the platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Opensource, pricing & enterprise wise adoption
Happy customer but improvments could be done
What do you like best about the product?
how easy it is to setup topics, schemas, give acces etc. Easy integration
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to have a better interface to be able to read messages in a topic based on avro schemas. Now all we can see is encoded data, which is useless
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
exchanging data with different customers
An easy-to-use, cost-effective managed Kafka service.
What do you like best about the product?
I use Aiven for Kafka because I wanted a 'vanilla' Kafka installation that was supported and maintained by others. This avoids the overhead of operating it myself but also ensures we have a native Kafka deployment, without the overhead of adopting a more elaborate binary-compatible platform for features we are unlikely to require, and at great cost.
Aiven for Kafka was simple to set up and establish within our infrastructure, and comes with a range of extensibility options that ensures we are able to grow our offering in future (for example, built-in support for Kafka Connect and schema registry are bonuses we may want to use in future). I am especially pleased with the real-time dashboard updates in Aiven's console and the ability to manipulate services via Terraform, as this enables Aiven to plug into our existing cloud operations architecture easily.
Aiven's costs for its services are transparent, which is appreciated in a world of used car salesman 'talk to us for pricing' models which add friction to the purchasing process of otherwise commodity services.
The service is well documented and does what it says on the tin, so there has been no need to speak with support at any time during its operation; it just works.
Aiven for Kafka was simple to set up and establish within our infrastructure, and comes with a range of extensibility options that ensures we are able to grow our offering in future (for example, built-in support for Kafka Connect and schema registry are bonuses we may want to use in future). I am especially pleased with the real-time dashboard updates in Aiven's console and the ability to manipulate services via Terraform, as this enables Aiven to plug into our existing cloud operations architecture easily.
Aiven's costs for its services are transparent, which is appreciated in a world of used car salesman 'talk to us for pricing' models which add friction to the purchasing process of otherwise commodity services.
The service is well documented and does what it says on the tin, so there has been no need to speak with support at any time during its operation; it just works.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some capabilities are missing or clunky, especially on configuration management and security. A key feature I wish Aiven for Kafka supported is the ability to authenticate via mTLS using our own root of trust, as this would enable the Aiven for Kafka service to be embedded with our existing service mesh mechanism (a feature I have relied upon in past self-hosted deployments). At present, we must distribute login details to each consumer of the service, which adds frustrating amounts of overhead in generating, distributing and managing the lifecycle of secret material.
Additionally, the ability to embed Kafka into our existing control-loop based declarative workflow for setting up users, topics and ACLs would be appreciated, i.e. by allowing easier adoption of Kubernetes-based operators for declaring these resources. There are third-party solutions but they require customisation or are not intended for use in this model, which makes them tricky to adopt.
More generally, the Aiven Terraform provider would benefit from some significant overhaul to make resource names more consistent and improve the documentation around certain behaviours. The Aiven team appears to be in the process of migrating abstractions within the provider around 'organization' objects, with old and new abstractions present and it not being clear that one has been deprecated.
Additionally, the ability to embed Kafka into our existing control-loop based declarative workflow for setting up users, topics and ACLs would be appreciated, i.e. by allowing easier adoption of Kubernetes-based operators for declaring these resources. There are third-party solutions but they require customisation or are not intended for use in this model, which makes them tricky to adopt.
More generally, the Aiven Terraform provider would benefit from some significant overhaul to make resource names more consistent and improve the documentation around certain behaviours. The Aiven team appears to be in the process of migrating abstractions within the provider around 'organization' objects, with old and new abstractions present and it not being clear that one has been deprecated.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Aiven for Kafka is providing a hosted service to remove the obligation on us to run Kafka ourselves, which would otherwise have added huge overhead in running infrastructure, and also huge risk to the business in terms of justifying ongoing maintenance activities. Aiven performs this for us, so we just use the service without thinking very much about the operational needs of keeping it running, maintained and highly available.
Great cloud simplification platform
What do you like best about the product?
Its niche focus on PostgreSQL. Companies who are able to focus on one main language can expand on it in the future.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing. Seems like a great product with a great marketing team.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solving Cloud-related problems
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